You always wanted to take those classes but either they were too expensive, or you did not had the time to sit for hours in a classroom or 1001 excuses, now Coursera provides the chance to go back to Uni from home!!!
Ladies I think this is great news!!!
About Coursera
We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.
Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.
Our Courses
Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you master the material. When you take one of our classes, you will watch lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises. When you join one of our classes, you’ll also join a global community of thousands of students learning alongside you. We know that your life is busy, and that you have many commitments on your time. Thus, our courses are designed based on sound pedagogical foundations, to help you master new concepts quickly and effectively. Key ideas include mastery learning, to make sure that you have multiple attempts to demonstrate your new knowledge; using interactivity, to ensure student engagement and to assist long-term retention; and providing frequent feedback, so that you can monitor your own progress, and know when you’ve really mastered the material.
We offer courses in a wide range of topics, spanning the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, and many others. Whether you’re looking to improve your resume, advance your career, or just learn more and expand your knowledge, we hope there will be multiple courses that you find interesting.
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A warm welcome to our new members Luraine Wheatley, Denise Couch, Eileen Dodd and Cathy Kinch. These ladies are already volunteering in the Coffee Shop or with the Trolley Service. We bid farewell to Thelma Higgins who has retired from The Pines and returned home to Jamaica and belated birthday wishes to Janilee Clifford who was 80 yrs young last month.
The 2012 Christmas Bazaar is booked for Saturday 1st December at the ARC, Camana Bay and we are most grateful to Dart for sponsoring us once again. Plans are already well underway and Co-Ordinator Pam McDonough will be contacting volunteers for various tasks over the upcoming weeks. The format and stalls will be much the same as last year with the addition of a small stall for jewellery and any donations for this stall are more than welcome – costume jewllery of any type (broken items can possibly be repaired by the craft group), jewellery boxes for sale or display etc. In addition, ladies are asked to source any prizes for the grab bags and ballon pop whilst on their travels. Gifts in the range of $10-$15 are needed (items that might be cheaper outside of Cayman or interesting items from overseas).
Following on from the donations made earlier this year, Pink Ladies have been able to meet two more additional requests from local schools. First, the May General Meeting approved an additional donation of $1000 to Lighthouse School for continuation of the after school programme for “at risk” children. The Executive also approved a donation of $1000 to George town Primary as sponsorship of a nameplate at the school which is a fundraising project of the PTA to enhance the outside playground area and facilities. The new school building was opened recently (photo above).
Nine ladies recently completed the Department of Environmental Health Basic Food Hygiene Certificate. This is a requirement for anyone working in the Coffee Shop but is also a very interesting course to take even if you do not. Topics cover Bacteriology, Food Poisoning, Hygiene, Food Safety Control etc. It is a one day course 9am-4pm with a short test at the end for the certification. More details from the Dept of Environmnetal Health 949 6696.
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